PCA AutoX Sept 4 2011

AllanJ wrote: Colby, you did an EXCELLENT job!!!  Fantastic time!  That's within a couple tenths of what I did with your car at lunch.  Give yourself a pat on the back.

Yes, Colby did great. I like the way he saved his best for the last run and really made it count.

On one hand I'm disappointed that I didn't get a chance in the afternoon to see if I could continue to improve my times as well (the duke was temporarily out of commission after lunch), but on the other hand it was memorable driving Charles' 10,000 mile '88 GT during the second half of the day... despite the fact it was scary dangerous with 23 year old tires and non-functioning shocks and struts!

 

Colby, you did an EXCELLENT job!!!  Fantastic time!  That's within a couple tenths of what I did with your car at lunch.  Give yourself a pat on the back.  

Patrick wrote: Do you have that short string thing on the camera with the plastic clasp on the end of it? If so, that's what it was, vibrating against the camera itself.

No, nothing like that on this camera. Notice that it seems to happen at certain RPMs, and those mounts do transmit a lot of vibration to the interior.

Cheese wrote: Patrick wrote: What was vibrating? I don't know...

Do you have that short string thing on the camera with the plastic clasp on the end of it? If so, that's what it was, vibrating against the camera itself.

 

Bassman wrote: Emailed and texted him...don't think he's active anymore

He still has current ads on Craigslist. Maybe he was just away for the long weekend.

Cheese wrote: I like this viewing the videos side by side thing. http://youtubedoubler.com/1Bdd

Colby, that buzzing hornet in your car sounds awfully angry!

What was vibrating?

 

Some great pictures of the autocross Here.

Our favorite shot has got to be this infrared one.

But ya gotta love this little smokin' tomato as well...

 

Patrick I have to agree with Alan on this one.  All the used connectors you are going to find will be 20 year old brittle plastic that has been heat treated to near glass brittle.

     If I have one laying in my parts bin and I need one,  I'll toss on a used one, however I would never go out of my way to find and install a used one.  

IIRC the new ones were about 13 bucks.  Vs the cost of a possible tow home, or at the least waiting for a buddy to bring me a spare part.  I think 13 bucks is cheap.  Heck I spend more than that on a McDonald's meal when I am really hungry and order nuggets to go along with my burger.

Capt Fiero wrote: You guys are aware that these connectors are avaliable new from Lordco in there Pico catalog right?  They are not that expensive either, a whole lot less than the cost of gas driving to Pick A Part.

Good to know.

The problem with buying used connectors is that you already have a used connector in your car - that just failed. 

Brian, you are the gentleman for letting me play with your car, even after I spun it.   

Your car is definitely a little looser than I'm used to and my hat is off to you for your skills in piloting it as well as you do.  You have a great feel for your car and it would take me a little more time to develop a similar feel.  After my first spin, I dialed it back a little bit as you can clearly see on the video.  I sure didn't want to go flying off into skidpad construction land.    But everywhere else I was doing my best and (sometimes overdriving - it took all I had to not spin your car into those heavy metal-boxed timing lights when I went semi-sideways into the stop box) and you beat me fair and square! 

Gary's 914 used to be looser than yours and we've been playing with it and now it's quite stable.  I managed a 42.5 without too much trouble (even with the engine trouble) on a fun run.  Could've done 41's in a couple more runs.  Adjustable suspension ftw!    If you ever need to replace your shocks, you know what to do.